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Bowditch octant
From: Omar Reis
Date: 2004 Nov 19, 15:19 -0200
From: Omar Reis
Date: 2004 Nov 19, 15:19 -0200
Hello, I'm trying to build an octant similar do Bowditch's. I found a beautiful image of it on the following address: www.nathanielbowditch.org/images/sextantb.jpg I wonder if anyone knows more details about this instrument: 1) Scale radius 2) Number of minutes in the vernier ( i.e. tick divisions per degree ) Regards Omar